CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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October 31, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A still from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1910, via UpNorthMemories.  (Our restoration, as per usual.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #scarecrow #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #pumpkinhead #vintage postcard #illustration #1910s #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magic Seasons Toolkit by Allinson & McInnes, 1976.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #1970s #illustration #carved pumpkin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From International Teamster, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #witch #silhouette #hallowe'en #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1882.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Illinois University's 1980 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#halloween #wolfman #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw University's 1959 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #vintage men #1950s
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Sundials (permalink)
"Dark and dingy as the sky ... a sun-dial on a church-wall has the look, in its useless black shade, of having failed in its business enterprise and stopped payment for ever." —Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
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Old News (permalink)
From Ball State University's 1976 yearbook.
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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago State College's 1971 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#witch #vintage yearbook #1970s #eye patch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst College's 1924 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #broomstick #cat #jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #elephant #tiger
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1955.
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#cat #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Snead State Junior College's 1972 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#magic wand #october #pumpkin #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #1970s #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Central Arkansas' 1987 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Atlanta Southern Dental College's 1939 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#skeleton #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Pumpkin alive and well."  From The Gateway, 1967.
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#pumpkin #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1911 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #pumpkinhead #pumpkin head
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1911 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #silhouette #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maclean's Magazine, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #ghost #witch #cauldron #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #1920s #vintage magazine #magazine
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October 30, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The dark secret that gym memberships don't disclose: "Exercise that is performed as a task is a drain on the nervous system."  From Healthful Living, Based on the Essentials of Physiology by Jesse Feiring Williams, 1934.
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#vintage photo #exercise #1930s #vintage man #man #photo #physical fitness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1910, via UpNorthMemories.  (Our restoration, as per usual.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #hallowe'en #cabbage #vintage postcard #vintage hallowe'en #illustration #vegetable people #1910s #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Spelling Program 6 by Thomas and Braun, 1979.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #hallowe'en #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Best Halloween in fifteen years."  From the Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#hallowe'en #vintage headline #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #witch #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1906 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #occult #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mary Washington's 1926 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #ornate capital #vintage yearbook #yearbook #letter f
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1953.
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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#religion #vintage illustration #ark of the covenant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1912 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#witch #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #costume
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Old News (permalink)
"It's later than it has ever been before."  From The Improvement Era, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #time #clock #out of time #vintage headline #headline #late
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas's 1898 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #skull face #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#hallowe'en #vintage magazine #1960s #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1935 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #demon #devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #pumpkin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Animals, 1970.
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#black cat #cat #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en
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Old News (permalink)
"Halloween is a state of mind."  From Santa Clara University's 1991 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#tiger #vintage illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Screenland Plus TV-Land, 1952.
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#jack-o'-lantern #pumpkin #hallowe'en #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman #1950s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1892 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maclean's Magazine, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #vintage magazine #magazine
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October 29, 2024

The Right Word (permalink)
Is the difference between a kitten and a grocery or department store even taught anymore?  From A Vocabulary Preprimer Workbook to Accompany Skip Along, Under the Sky, Open the Door, and The New High on the Hill by Mabel O'Donnell, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #cat #1930s #illustration #kitten
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise.  In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask.  Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#werewolf #inquisition #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #man in the moon #faces in things #hallowe'en #poem
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"In everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic."  From Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
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#strength #beauty #melville #moby dick
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Old News (permalink)
"Bleed now!  There is still time."  From The Gateway, 1967.
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#vintage headline #blood #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana State University's 1976 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #graveyard #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Use Goat Gook Hair Grease, Sammy."  From Loko, 1959.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage hair #hair #spoof ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1913 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Through the mists of time, this cat had a premonition about you.  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1953.
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#cat #premonition
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1907 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse by Olive Beaupré Miller, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #sun #fairy tale #flying horse #illustration #Apollo #solar chariot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1906 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1930.
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#cat #vintage photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas's 1898 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #wolves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #hallowe'en
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Conversations with Thornton Wilder:

***
"A novelist selects words so far as possible to create a precise image in the mind of the reader. A dramatist writes blank checks for the collaboration of others."
***

[Bonus: A reference to "Balding Egret Community Playhouse," which appears to be something Wilder made up--and which precurses the Startled Egret restaurant in The Pleasure Dial.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #medicine #tonic
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Old News (permalink)
"Marry now or ... never!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#marriage #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The river of mercy flows on and on."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.
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#vintage headline #headline
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October 28, 2024

Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper1960.
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#vintage illustration #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #native american #1920s #illustration #bear dance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #hallowe'en #radio #vintage magazine #1960s #illustration #antenna #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A trial trip on the broomstick.  From St. Nicholas, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat, the Devil, and Lee Fontana by Shirley Rousseau Murphy, 2014.
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#cat #devil
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Old News (permalink)
"Seduced by the glass eye."  From The Romulus Roman, 1977.
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#eye #vintage headline #headline #glass eye
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1966 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#mask #goat #vintage yearbook #1960s #goat costume #goat mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Undated Halloween postcard, via UpNorthMemories.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bat #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #postcard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Middle Tennessee State College's 1961 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage men #totem pole
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Implets."  From Wesleyan College's 1906 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #women #vintage women
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Old News (permalink)
"Gentleman skunk."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1951.
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#vintage headline #skunk #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #waiter #dirty dishes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monster #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #greased pole
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Please leave my soap alone."  From Anderson College's 1926 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #1920s #soap
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fez #white cat #cat in a hat #hats for cats #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Atlanta Southern Dental College's 1939 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#giant #vintage headline #wrestling #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Once God of beauty, here I am. Now decayed — a wretched man."  From The Gateway, 1969.
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#death #skull face #aging #decay
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bethel College's 1977 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en
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Old News (permalink)
"Ghost plays the organ in a house of horrors."  From The Sun, 1988.
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#ghost #horror #organ #vintage headline #headline
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October 27, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Robin Hood, illustrated by Edwin John Prittie, 1923.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #robin hood #sword fight #1920s #illustration #men fighting
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)


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#dark shadows #grave mood rings
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Beacon Primer by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by G. A. Harker, 1912.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #dog #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Highroads to Reading 1 by Sheffield, Roy, Roy & Bollert, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #wolf #hallowe'en #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tangent, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #forest spirit #deer #nymph
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Macdonald's 1935 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #top hat #1920s #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Undated Halloween postcard, via UpNorthMemories.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #vegetable people #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"But dearie, I brush twice a day, and I still get decay!"  From The Old Line, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #graveyard #living dead #tooth decay
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina Teacher's College's 1925 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #meat grinder #grinder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ellis Stanyon's Magic, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #shadow #hand
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #shadow #vintage yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #highwayman #pistol #robber
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The APRO Bulletin, 1986.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #cow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro College's 1925 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cupid #vintage yearbook #feather #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #alligator #capital t #letter t
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1956 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #inkblot #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #flowers #nursery rhyme
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elephant #hunter #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Schmucks with Underwoods, by Max Wilk:

***
"Eddie, do you expect a leopard to change his stripes?"
***



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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1903.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #alligator #sea monster #animal attack #under the sea #diver #submarine
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October 26, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Death uses the calendar to nest." —Gary Barwin
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#death #grim reaper #calendar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cats and Kttens by Edgar Werner, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#anthropomorphism #cat #vintage photo #tea party #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #1930s #airplane #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goblin #tailor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kirksville College's 1934 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hippocrates
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Old News (permalink)
"Togetherness?  Not on Saturdays, anyway."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#vintage headline #headline #saturday #togetheress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Please, mother -- I'd rather do it myself."  From The Aberree, 1963.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #cauldron
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bradley Polytechnic Institute's 1940 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What are you, some kind of nut?"  From The Old Line, 1962.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mr. peanut #nut
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1921 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dead-eye dick
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Old News (permalink)
"Russia is irritated."  From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#russia #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina Teacher's College's 1925 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pumpkin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pumpkin head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #cherub #seraphim
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance, we mistook it for a pumpkinhead.  From Salem College's 1913 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #athletics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#fish #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Halloween treat: the next of kin."  From Francis Marion College's 1975 yearbook.
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#cannibalism #hallowe'en #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The APRO Bulletin, 1975.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien #alien abduction
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana Dental College's 1916 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #cauldron #vintage yearbook #bones #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Butterflies are better than burnt fingers!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#butterfly #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1920s #ice skates
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Come Kitty; why do you run from me, Kitty?"  From Muskingum College's 1926 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #oct. 26
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #automaton #oz #illustration
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October 25, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #golf #1920s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise.  In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask.  Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#gothic #prof. oddfellow #vampire #1970s #video #grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
"Mystic message from spirit world."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1940.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
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#ouija #spirit communication #vintage headline #spirit message
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Rare to see hourglasses as candle holders.  From Earlham's 1914 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #world #hourglass #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"The noosepaper."  From Toike Oike, 1979.
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#noose #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1902 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You take the wrap -- I'm not cold, really."  From The Old Line, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1940s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan University of West Virginia's 1906 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #printing press
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #locomotive #bridge #royal gorge
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1906 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jack-in-the-box #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
A headline we can believe: "The usual thing."  From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the AFU Newsletter, 1989.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien #alien abduction
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Those who work behind the scenes.  From Baylor University's 1915 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hybrid #human faced #lizard man #lizard mustache #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1929 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #owl #cat #hallowe'en #up a tree #poem
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Old News (permalink)
"The Christmas fairy arrived in October."  From Modern Screen, 1960.
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#vintage christmas #christmas #october #vintage headline #headline #holidays combined
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #murder mystery #kibitzer #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Angela's Business, by Henry Sydnor Harrison:

[I think it's been a while since we've had an "abdicating omniscient" narrator.]
Why was Mr. Blenso called the Judge? An interesting point, on which I, for one, unluckily can shed no light.
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And the clock gazed back, since there was a matter between them this evening, and seemed to say, "Well, are you going to the Redmantle Club, or are you not?" But that was precisely the point on which the young man at the table had not yet made up his mind.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Little Green Story Book by Ousley & Russell, 1957.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #sheet ghost #hallowe'en #costume #illustration #1950s
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October 24, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fish #fishing #1900s #illustration #mackerel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #mock turtle #hybrid #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #cat #eye of horus #clairvoyance
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't let it worry you; it's just a puppet show."  From The Gateway, 1969.
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#vintage headline #puppet show #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Illinois University's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #vintage book #yearbook #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dancing #twist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1931 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #church #vintage yearbook #yearbook #venice #santa maria della salute
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Old News (permalink)
"German is inquisitive.  Wants to know what Germany is doing."  From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#germany #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Other people are only shadows that we frighten each other with, hurt each other with."  From Dark Shadows episode 1228.
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#shadow people #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1913 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #elephant #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #circus
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Old News (permalink)
"Does your family talk in (parentheses)?"  From The Improvement Era, 1966.
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#punctuation #vintage headline #headline #parentheses
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1930 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #matador #bullfighter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Arbetsgruppen För Ufologi, 1976.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bigfoot #1970s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From New Jersey State Teachers College's 1947 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #shakespeare #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hamlet #yorick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1951.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #giant hand #hand
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1929 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage yearbook #yearbook #triangle #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #caught in a net #obstacle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio College of Dental Surgery's 1902 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #grim reaper #open grave #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #ice cream #illustration
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October 23, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Everything symbolizes:
  • the body
  • something beyond itself
  • the mind
  • choices or crossroads
  • living, being, and passing away
  • the female principle
  • freedom and progress
  • interior life
  • something fundamental
  • majesty and judgment
  • lust
  • the beautiful qualities of God
  • some one thing
  • power and oppression
  • everything else
[Tidbits collected in the course of our research.  See Bullet Lists.]
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#symbolism #bullet list
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snail #starry night #night #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book To Accompany Down Our Street by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paths To Conservation by James S. Tippett, 1937.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #canoe #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Diamond Dick Jr. Boy's Best Weekly, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #men fighting #magazine
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Sleeping men confess their vices, but a man has to be awake to describe his dreams."  From Bright Horizons, 1954.
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#dreams #sleeping
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1929 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Sandrocottus (Chandragupta) and the lion.  From Chatterbox, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I finally got her goat for you."  From The Aberree, 1964.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #witch #goat #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Only to find him when you thought all was lost."  From Emory University's 1972 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#cat #vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Oh, that's Dr. Marti -- he's a Skeptic!"  From The Old Line, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeptic #weightless #walking on air #true skeptics are skeptical of skepticism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1913 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage automobile #automobile
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Old News (permalink)
"Wild cat is wise but must submit to man's superior woodcraft."  From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#cat #wildcat #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From MacMurray College's 1975 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #monolith #stone circle #stonehenge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #lynx
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1906 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From a c. 1960 pamphlet by the East Jordan Businessmen's Association, courtesy of UpNorthMemories.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #world #swan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Wesleyan College’s 1931 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The APRO Bulletin, 1975.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #flying saucer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1915 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark #facing the wrong way #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #endpapers
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October 22, 2024

The Right Word (permalink)
Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatrarâgasańkusumitâbhigña is a Googlewhack, but it's the name of an enlightened being and spiritual ruler in The Lotus of the True Law (one of the nine Buddhist dharmas, dated to between 1 and 255 CE).  Galadharagargitaghoshasusvaranakshatrarâgasańkusumitâbhigña is from the aeon of the Bodhisattva Priyadarśana in the world of Vairokanarasmipratimandita ("embellished by the rays of the sun"). 
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#buddhism
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#vampire #video #penetralia #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Pinocchio by Emily Gray, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #circus #pinocchio #illustration #living toy #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"How to lose friends without trying."  From The Gateway, 1965.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1962.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #merman #fashion #vintage fashion #eaten alive #barracuda
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1926 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Returned to life when undertaker was preparing to open arteries."  From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#zombie #recalled to life #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1902 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #scroll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #cat #hat #wideawake hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #cloud #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #guardians #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "The Thing" (1971) by J. T. C.
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#vintage illustration #monster #eye #the thing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I don't want to be a marble statue."  From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #witch #oz #living statue
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Technical College's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #top hat #dandy #1920s
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Old News (permalink)
"'Mantrams' and charms not yet obsolete."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1950.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times and Strange Talismans for Strange Times.
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#charm #talisman #vintage headline #mantra
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Coming home with the milk."  From Punch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #cow #milk
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Smart Set, 1906:

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our surprise party had surprised us [Eunice Swift Standish]

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a tenth-carbon copy of Alphonse Daudet

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"Some way I fear the dessert. Dessert is so conclusive." [Pomona Penrin]
***

[Note on one of the attachments:
I like how some of the qualities of this fictitious Peter Bowles match up with the charismatic screen presence of the Peter Bowles of To the Manor Born. (Btw, shortly after capturing this snippet, I happened to type "to the" into the Wikipedia search box--I was looking for To The Lighthouse--and To the Manor Born came up as the first suggestion!)]

 













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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #elf #illustration #jam
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #printing press
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cave #illustration
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October 21, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #fire #1930s #caveman #illustration #prehistoric
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #1890s #illustration #people who look like animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Friends and New Fables by Alice Talwin Morris and illustrated by Carton Moorpark, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #1910s #covered wagon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Swooning from pain."  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #pain #1920s #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #rooster #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #bigfoot #footprint
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Westminster Choir College's 1968 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #headless #yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1985 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing double
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Old News (permalink)
"Is inside a good thing?"  From The Gateway, 1965.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Francis Marion College's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #balloon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #phoenix #heraldry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1902 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #mule
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State College's 1962 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage men #cross dressing #mop hair #mop wig #drag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From At the Edge, 1998.
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#ears #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1927 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890. 
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#vintage illustration #grasshopper #goldenrod
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1955 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #cat #well
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Livingstone College's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #wizard #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #hammock #mustache #vintage man #man
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October 20, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1910.  Via UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #cutlery #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #illustration #carved pumpkin #1910s #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #robin hood #1920s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#humor #riddle #satire #vampire #video #grave mood rings #analog horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Seagull.  From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #capital a #letter a #bird #1920s #seagull #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #1870s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's man-faced goat is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #goat #human headed #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1926 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890. 
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Why, I'd just love to go to your funeral, dearie, but I've got a headache. I was putting on some toilet water this morning ... and the seat fell on my head."  From The Old Line, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #witch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Female Normal School (Farmville, Va.)'s 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #despair #stranded #castaway
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "A Demon's Nightmare" by J. T. C. (1972).
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1910 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #robot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis College's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #vintage man #man #garbage
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Old News (permalink)
"Bloody corpse walks away."  From The Gateway, 1969.
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#living dead #zombie #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #vintage yearbook #faces in things #autumn #fall
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Old News (permalink)
"Music for the insane.  Its effect[s] on the disordered mind are must salutary."  From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#music #mental illness #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spanking #illustration #sailor
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if the recovery of Constantinople would make Turkish Delight."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The New Yorker, Feb.-June 1925:

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Lone prospectors in the mountains of review copies need divining rods, guaranteed to wriggle over merit.

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Artemus J. Teeter, Harvard '09 A.B., Columbia 11 A.M., Daylight Saving Time

***
[From a "before" testimonial in a subscription ad.]
"I was empyrean, didactic, and eleemosynary."
[And the subscription card includes self-diagnoses for such items as...]
Ectoplasms
Xylophone Addiction
Zanyism
& So Forth

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a jollifier [master of ceremonies]

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[Chaplin is] a three-ring Intelligentsia all by himself. [Ben Hecht]
***

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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Laughing Horse, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #mountain #illustration
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October 19, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #bunny #1930s #illustration #dancing animal #dancing rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior English Activities 2 by Hatfield, Lewis, Thomas & Woody, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #hallowe'en #1930s #illustration #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #flower #wishing #1900s #illustration #milkweed
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if the gnu ever grows old."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #gnu
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rip Van Winkle, A Legend of the Hudson by Washington Irving, 19--.
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#vintage illustration #sleepy hollow #headless horseman
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Old News (permalink)
"Fed up: rats, roaches, vermin, filth": the full-page headline from Local 1-S News, 1995.
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#filth #vermin #rat #vintage headline #headline #roaches
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Song of Sixpence Picture Book by Walter Crane, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #jester #blackbird #bird #pie
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Old News (permalink)
"Are we zombies or can we choose to live?"  From The Aberree, 1957.  
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#zombie #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell, 1911.
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#occult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Colorado School of Mines' 1917 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #it's a small world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #bad smell #stench
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1909 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #dog #vintage yearbook #firecracker #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #dog #nun #prioress
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fireplace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story Book of Nick and Dick by Arthur Gates.
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#gingerbread man #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1931 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris
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Old News (permalink)
"Giant 'cigar' over Arizona."  From The APRO Bulletin, 1981.
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#ufo #cigar #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #demon #pitchfork #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #rabbit #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1927 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cinderella #pumpkin coach
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890. 
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#vintage illustration #horse #up a tree
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October 18, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #1920s #photographer #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#vampire #music video #video #neons gone mad #grave mood rings
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1917 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #forest #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trees #pathway
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton
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Old News (permalink)
"After death, what?"  From The Improvement Era, 1969.
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#life after death #afterlife #vintage headline #headline
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1962.
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#clones #1960s
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Old News (permalink)
"Pennises too heavy for robbers."  From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#money #penny #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #mustache #stretching
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1891 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trombone #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the AFU Newsletter, 1989.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien #alien abduction
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Utah Agricultural College's 1925 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #dizzy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #phrenology #character reading #1910s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Paris Review Interviews, vol. III:

***
[First, a leftover from vol. II.]
While my father was milking the cows my mother would come out and read something to him—Lear, say—leaving out the part of whomever my father felt like being that day, and he’d answer his lines from the cow. [John Gardner]

***
E. E. Cummings....did a wonderful imitation of a wood-burning locomotive going from Tiflis to Minsk. [John Cheever]
***

[Bonus: When Salman Rushdie was 9 or 10, he wrote a story in which the protagonist "meets a talking Pianola at one point."]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpent #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1935 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #football
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Old News (permalink)
"The high ups ask for more!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1919 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#anthropomorphism #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #typewriter #smart animal #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stage Costuming by Agnes Brooks Young, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #1650s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1926 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #spoof ad #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The photo and how it was captured.  From St. Nicholas, 1890. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #photography #fox
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October 17, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drawing #1920s #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Magnificent Milo, written and illustrated by Joan Balfour Payne (1958).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #centaur #illustration #wyvern
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Old News (permalink)
"Seeing the world from a chair."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1939.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"I hate horses."  From The Old Line, 1947.
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#horse #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Antelope versus boa constrictor: which do you wager for the win?  From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snake #boa constrictor #animal fight #antelope
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1930 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing
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Old News (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #cat #lion #vintage headline #refrigerator #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's book with three heads, four arms, and two legs is from Wilson College's 1949 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #book #three headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #bird #robin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Utah Agricultural College's 1925 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #sorority
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Modern Screen, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1960s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1917 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #shakespeare #scribe #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mysteria, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rowan-Cabarrus Community College's 1989 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #vintage man #1980s #bubblegum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #chicken #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1908 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #1900s #vintage men
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Old News (permalink)
"Owning car unnecessary.  Possible to 'borrow' one at any time."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1917 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From I Know a Secret by Hildreth, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #squirrel #illustration #hollow tree #stacked animals #raccoon #up at tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #1890s #illustration #llama
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October 16, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's elephant ready for its close-up is from Today and Tomorrow by Hildreth et al., 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elephant #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Applied Drawing by Harold Haven Brown, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #ex libris #illustration #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children of the Dawn by Evan Davies and illustrated by Cyril Cowell, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hunter #animal trap #caveman #illustration #prehistoric
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Wasp, 1902.
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#vintage photo #wine #california #1900s #woman #vintage woman #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (1922).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #tree spirit #1920s #illustration #fairy tree #tree fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #hallowe'en #vintage magazine #magazine
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Old News (permalink)
A headline we can believe: "Dullness ruled."  From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#vintage headline #headline
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Phillips Bible Institute's 1915 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #poem #college yell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #illustration #skateboard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Atlanta Southern Dental College's 1939 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1871.
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Detroit College of Law's 1930 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Arbetsgruppen För Ufologi, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1929 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #yawn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #polar bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crushed #1900s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Yes, that's what we must do.  Not believe it, pretend it never happened."  From Dark Shadows episode 416.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba College's 1931 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #top hat #dandy #1930s #ex libris #bookplate
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Temporal anomaly investgator Chris Murphy spotted this one in New York City.
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#clock #temporal anomaly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1922 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #dentist #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
"I fink it's dust selicious."  From "When I Was a Squantum Wagon" by Uncle Morris Chair, as told to Charlotte Flack, in The Children's Book, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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October 15, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1910.  Via UpNorthMemories.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #pumpkinhead #vintage postcard #illustration #1910s #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #nutrition #diet #1930s #illustration #food #iron-rich
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio by C. Collodi and illustrated by Attilio Mussino, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #cat #1920s #pinocchio #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889. 
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#vintage illustration #elf #illustration #1880s
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Old News (permalink)
"'Greedy' comes back."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1952.
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#greed #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Two find student teaching enjoyable."  From Francis Marion College's 1975 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#native american #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Australian Flying Saucer Review, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #flying saucer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
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#vintage illustration #ape #monkey #aesop #dolphin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Them wuz the good old days."  From Chicago Technical College's 1924 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #reminiscences #good old days #nostalgia
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Old News (permalink)
Note that an i's dot is at large beneath the headline.  "'I' is different from 'me.'"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1950.
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#vintage headline #pronoun #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #shakespeare #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It does give a feeling of movement (horribly).  From Punch, 1928.
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#modern art #vintage illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Paris Review Interviews, vol. II:

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INTERVIEWER: How does a writer become a serious novelist?
FAULKNER: Ninety-nine percent talent…ninety-nine percent discipline…ninety-nine percent work.

[Later on, Faulkner continues to "do the math" by treating obligation as a currency.]
"[The writer’s] obligation is to get the work done the best he can do it; whatever obligation he has left over after that he can spend any way he likes."

[Btw, Faulkner uses the phrase "Kilroy was here"--not once, but twice--as a metaphor for the writer and the critic, respectively, making their presence known.]

***
"Our boss [at an advertising agency] would come down from meetings and put on his cardigan, which was a sign that he was going to be creative." [Peter Carey]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#wheelbarrow #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1925 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #money #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #magnet #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #earth #anthropomorphism #faces in things #illustration #ballet
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1898 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Wish and it comes true.  Would you like a light?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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#vintage headline #headline
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October 14, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Krishna, in The Çrīmadbhāgavatam, Book 1, 1895. 
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#vintage illustration #deity #1890s #illustration #krishna #dimensions
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #sheep #1890s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Rushing into the great void.  How the constellations are regrouping themselves."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.
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#constellation #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a spirit medium's channeled self-portrait of a cultured Martian giant called Pawleenoos, as well as the script of the Martians' symphonic chanting.  From Confessions of a Ghost-hunter by Harry Price, 1936. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spirit writing #spirit medium #mars #spirit drawing #martian #illustration #extraterrestrial
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kirksville College's 1934 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #chemistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An out-of-body spirit wonders at feeling free and being so far from Earth."  From Drawings Descriptive of Spirit Life and Progress, 1874.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spiritualism #astral body #astral travel #out of body #spirit body #spirit travel
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Old News (permalink)
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1970 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #window #1970s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of California, Berkeley's 1922 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #deity
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Old News (permalink)
"Women will not give up."  From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At first glance, we assumed this was a spirit double rising from a body, given the context.  Illustration by C. B. Falls.  From "Stranger Than Fiction" by Arthur Conan Doyle, in Collier's, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spirit double
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Happiness comes from thoughts, not things."  From the University of Houston's 1971 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#1970s #up a tree #vintage man #sign
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Old News (permalink)
"A rose is not a rose."  From The Gateway, 1962.
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#vintage headline #rose #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1931 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ladder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Where the Wind Blows by Katharine Pyle and illustrated by Bertha Corson Day, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #flying horse #plough
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Old News (permalink)
"Then gingerly we'll go through jonquils to seek out others [sic] summers."  From Watts Hospital School of Nursing's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #flowers #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Letters From a Cat by Helen Hunt Jackson and illustrated by Addie Ledyard, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ashland College's 1931 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #telephone #ad #red face
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October 13, 2024

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Moon level luxury" in Anaheim, California.  Via UpNorthMemories.  (Our restoration, as per usual.) 
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#vintage postcard #motel #space age #postcard #mid century modern
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Introductory Second Reader, Animal Folk Tales by James Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird #bear #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #1970s #illustration #vintage automobile #mechanic #automobile #oil
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Old News (permalink)
"The ice foeman.  King Frost forbids navigation.  Chill news from the court of the old god Thor."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#old man winter #vintage headline #winter spirit #thor #headline #winter king
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Book of Shadows by Don Paterson, 2005.
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#ghost #aphorism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Female Normal School (Farmville, Va.)'s 1908 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bee
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The Right Word (permalink)
A preface explaining why readers should keep any errors they discover to themselves.  From Where the World Ends by A. A. Henley, 1911.
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#preface #errors
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hallowe'en #blood #spoof ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A poor scan, but the message is clear.  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1952.
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#cat
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Old News (permalink)
"The feeling that saying something makes it happen."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline #magical thinking
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North-Western College's 1922 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The first of the rattle snakes."  From St. Nicholas, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#rattlesnake #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1927 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed
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Old News (permalink)
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan University's 1930 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #dog #flute #musical animal #illustration #nursery rhyme
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Case School of Applied Science's 1947 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #leaf #bowing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #statue #oz #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Penelope Passes, by Joan Coggin:
***
"Which clergyman do we ask to say grace?...There will be two clergymen at dinner, and we must ask one of them to say grace."
"Can't they say it together as a duet?"
***
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#prayer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sheep #illustration #wild sheep #moufflon #mouflon
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October 12, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #bear #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pen and ink #fox #quill pen #1890s #illustration #smart animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alice in wonderland #fish #1940s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Money doesn't grow on trees, but what about half-a-dollar bill?"  From The Film Daily, 1924.
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#vintage ad #money #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Using Our Language, Grade VIII by T. I. Davis, 1961.

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#vintage illustration #comet #in the clouds #shooting star
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Ghosts (both light bodies and shadow selves) watch the birdie for a spirit photograph.  From the University of Bridgeport's 1959 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photographer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Georgia College's 1960 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #fly swatter #vintage men
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Old News (permalink)
Oh, no!  The power of no has been withdrawn.
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#no #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas's 1898 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Claims she models for Picasso!"  From The Old Line, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #modern art #picasso
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1960 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #silhouette #pitchfork #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Insulated cats and animal quandaries."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1953.
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#cat #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #medicine #pharmacist
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"'I think the dead stay dead.  Do you?'"  From Dark Shadows episode 177.
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#life after death #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1927 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spider web #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Journeys Through Bookland by Charles H. Sylvester, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #trojan horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Human electricity."  From the Duluth Herald, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #aura #human magnetism #1910s #human electricity #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1921 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
"The death of a ship on a calm, silent sea."  From Chatterbox, 1913.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson-Brown College's 1926 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #1920s #curtain #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The blackbirds flew away."  From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #blackbird #bird #1920s #illustration
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October 11, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #hybrid #human headed #cat people #1920s #illustration #man dog #wheedling
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#vampire #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fox #bear #illustration #animal friends #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 1966.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #fire #hallowe'en #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"How high is the sky?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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#vintage headline #sky
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #hidden picture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1951 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien
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Old News (permalink)
From The Cheerful Day by Nan Fairbrother, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #ornate frame #london #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1912 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alliteration
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
From Siren, 1931.
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#vintage ad #shhh #don't speak #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Shadow, 1944.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull #crystal skull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mysteries and Secrets of Magic by C. J. S. Thompson, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Only trees remember open spaces, growing places."  From Montana State University's 1973 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1825.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #horse #gallows
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Old News (permalink)
"Gold hidden in cheese."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1932.
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#gold #cheese #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From some writings by Northrop Frye:

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three portentous harrumphs

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Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

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One should have bigger & better conversions everyday, like a mechanized phoenix.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #winter #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Calculated chaos.  Believe it or not, this was all planned!"  From George Washington University's 1961 yearbook.
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#chaos #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Boy and His Daily Living by Helen Burnham, Evelyn Jones, & Helen Redford and illustrated by Iva Lou Wildey, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #before and after #1930s #illustration #then and now
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October 10, 2024

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.  (A precursor to Jason King!)

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #king #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's burial of a raccoon by frogs.  From St. Nicholas, 1889. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #frog #rabbit #illustration #raccoon #1880s
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Old News (permalink)
"Refused to be a vegetarian" and lost a beauty crown.  Amazingly, this news story about a French beauty queen dedicated to meat is written in French-style broken English.
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#vegetarian #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"An encounter in the night."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1932 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #two headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Asbury College's 1936 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #vintage man #man #sign
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance we thought it was some sort of zoetrope.  From Purdue University's 1970 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #zoetrope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Sweethearts once, but married now."  From Epigrams of Eve by Sophie Irene Loeb and illustrated by Ruby Lind, 1913.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #marriage
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Dayton's 1961 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photographer #illustration #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1927 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue #sculpture #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When Lincoln saw his own phantom."  From Ghost Stories, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #abraham lincoln
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #knitting #needle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Joseph's College's 1974 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #oz #1890s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1908 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fireplace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Is there one in all of us?"  From Anomaly, 1974.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#demon #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories to Study, B 4, 1970.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #cow #1970s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1912 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion #the end #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"How to crack a nut.  Drown it in air!"  From The Children's Newspaper1922.
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#vintage headline #advice #headline #nut
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October 9, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Wolf spider.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spider #1930s #illustration #wolf spider
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
From Modern Theatre Practice, A Handbook for Non-Professionals by Heffner, Selden & Sellman, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #triangle #color theory #diagram #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"News from inside the earth."  From The Children's Newspaper1919.
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#vintage headline #headline #shangri-la #Shambhala #Agartha
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858.  We previously saw this version.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #potato #illustration #three men in a tub #1850s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Four, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #merry-go-round #1930s #illustration #amusement park #vintage automobile #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hidden WItchery by Nigel Tourneur and decorated by Will Mein, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #flower
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Old News (permalink)
"Why look around?"  From The Gateway, 1962.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1959 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #grotesque #vintage yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Mr. Smith had few friends and very little fun in life.  Then came the monster and everything was fine -- until the monster became hungry."  From The Old Line, 1941.
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#monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson State Teachers College's 1940 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #medicine man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1876.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human insect #bug man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis College's 1952 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#mesmerism #hypnotism #vintage yearbook #hypnotist #hypnosis #mesmerist #vintage man #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #knight #griffin #creature #gryphon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas's 1898 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"An ex-wife warns: Don't leave your husband."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#vintage headline #divorce #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1891 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #gnome #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alpha, 1979.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crystal ball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1945 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dynamite #dentist #mad doctor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts, the Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth and illustrated by Ursula Arndt, 1972.
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#witch #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crossed eyes #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Kind of Wedding they wanted—and the Kind they got."  From Hand-Made Fables by George Ade and illustrated by John T. McCutcheon, 1920.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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October 8, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#wolfman #werewolf #video #grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#tattoo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara College's 1956 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 118.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #vintage automobile #automobile #armored car
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northern State Teachers College's 1929 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn #deer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #lion #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1919 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #king #knight #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Beware of bores!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1949.
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#vintage headline #advice #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Dobleys, by Kate Masterson:

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"Why, there's Glob Sepia, the artist."

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Professor Pomegranate Pounden [a pianist]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #poem #imaginary animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Dress like you are already famous" (Mary Beth Boone).
From State Female Normal School (Farmville)'s 1914 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #picture puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billtry by Mary Kyle Dallas, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #headstand
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1926 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Echoes from Storyland, c. 1880.
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#vintage illustration #cats #burned alive #crying cat #crying animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #baseball #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Frank C. Papé, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration #stork #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1925 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy
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October 7, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #roman #teacher #1930s #illustration #math #school
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #giant #1890s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Blackbirds in church."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1958.
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#church #blackbird #bird #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He wishes to fool me."  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s #eyes #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read The Toy-box by Gerrard & McInnes and illustrated by Connie Jefferess, undated (c. 1960).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog #mouse #illustration #animal friends
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
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#frost #ice
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Puzzles and Games :: Tic Tac Toe Story Generator (permalink)
This tic-tac-toe game can easily be read as a poem.  Here are the printable instructions.  From Hollins College's 1952 yearbook.
INSTRUCTIONS:
In alternate turns, complete a row, column, or diagonal with three X’s or O’s. Each X and O has a discrete unit of meaning, as detailed in the Dictionary of One-Letter Words. Choose and write a letter meaning alongside each X and O placed in the grid; don’t repeat a letter meaning within the same game. Number each turn on the grid, to establish the linear progression of the story. When the game is finished, use the sequence of key words to construct your story, adding connecting phrases as necessary.

Click here for a printable template.  Thanks to Gary Barwin for inspiration!
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Old News (permalink)
"Split-level children."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Fox in the box."  From Together, 1969.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fox #box
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #submarine #beaver
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Ankle deep.  From Centenary College of Louisiana's 1925 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #wet feet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #upside down #alcohol #drunk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1960 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #silhouette #pitchfork #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blue devil
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Old News (permalink)
"'I don't remember' is poor answer."  From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#memory #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #cyclops
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Where singleness is bliss 'tis folly to be wives."  From Hollins College's 1935 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spinning wheel #yarn #spinster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Caveat Emptor, vol 3, no 4.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana State Normal School's 1919 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #despair #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Season to season, every hour will be an anniversary of the hour just past."  From Watts Hospital School of Nursing's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cat
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October 6, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise.  In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask.  Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode is by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#prof. oddfellow #vampire #video #grave mood rings
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Why should this worry you?  It's nothing but blank pages." From Dark Shadows episode 1108.
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#blank book #dark shadows #blank pages
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dinosaur #animal attack
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Old News (permalink)
"The demon that stole my wife."  From Mystic Magazine, 1954.  
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#demon #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mary Washington's 1926 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From N by E by Rockwell Kent, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #starry night #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Most guys today."  From The Old Line, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #composite #average
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Dayton's 1961 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#skull #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #severed head #decapitated
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Houston's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #surreal
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Old News (permalink)
"Sheds his skin every summer."  From the Duluth Herald, 1906.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A rare weeping jester's marotte.  From the University of Dayton's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte #comedy and tragedy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's coyotes having supper with woodpeckers is from St. Nicholas, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lucian's Wonderland by St. J. Basil Wynne Willson and illustrated by A. Payne Garnett, 1899.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #whale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1935 yearbook.  Compare to this one, here.

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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #cowboy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Queen's University's 1933 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #1900s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Uncle's Advice, by William Hewlett:

[Alas, I bailed on this epistolary novel because it wasn't living up to the promise of the dramatis personae.]


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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tarrant County Junior College's 1969 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Life is a series of cycles."  From Wittenberg College's 1936 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #earth #rotation #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cycles
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October 5, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I don't remember my name, but my face is familiar."  From The Old Line, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mirror #memory #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #goat #troll #bridge #1930s #illustration #three billygoats gruff
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1940.
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#word puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Omen, 1997.
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #vintage magazine #vintage hallowe'en #illustration #magazine #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Peterson's Magazine, 1882.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #knocking off
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1957.  
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Old News (permalink)
Sadly, this wasn't about a severed automaton's head going to visit a graveyard.  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A snow leopard?  From Olivet Nazarene College's 1967 yearbook.

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#snowman #vintage yearbook #snow leopard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis College's 1952 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #strange map #new york #endpapers #brooklyn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A bucking bronco from The Century, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #horse #cowboy #bucking bronco #bronco
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Seiberlingo!  A language with but seven words in it."  From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1926 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #language
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Old News (permalink)
"Did you ever see a spirit?  Do you know what 'ectoplasm' and the 'aura' are?  Did you ever see a horn tossed about by the 'spirits'?"  From The Film Daily, 1923.
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#vintage ad #spiritualism #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Houston's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #cougar
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
"White has a king and pawn.  White to play and win."  From Toike Oike, 1984.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#chess
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From CdU Suplemento Internacional, 1997.
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#vintage illustration #alien #spaceman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #wedding #marriage #asleep #matrimony
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #eskimo #dog sled
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgia Southern College's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Old News (permalink)
"Family were willing guinea-pigs."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1955.
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October 4, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Design Your Home for Living by Mabel Barbara Trilling, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #balance #1950s #right and wrong #organization
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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Old News (permalink)
"Digging the Garden of Eden."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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#garden of eden #biblical #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #crab #under the sea #lobster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #occult
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#squirrel #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1902 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #heart
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #diving #mine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of California, Berkeley's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clothesline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Face in the Pool, written and illustrated by J. Allen St. John, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #ornate capital #letter t
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Frederick College's 1965 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 15.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Oregon College's 1960 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn #fall
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Too few ask whether a football wishes to be kicked.  From St. Nicholas, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #football
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Broome Technical Community College's 1971 yearbook.

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#scarecrow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #oz #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Smart Set, ca. 1905:

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"All magic lies close to everyday affairs."

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the Every Other Saturday Club

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a solemn ass who wrote essays on the relation of something or other to something else
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Re. the attachments:
You will, of course, note the one-upping (-downing?) in the first snippet from Ethel Sigsbee Small(!). In case it's not obvious, by the way, the protagonists in the work by Small are--well--small, i.e., stage-struck children.
"The Importance of Being Somebody" actually has the prosaic meaning of "don't be a nobody." Naturally, I prefer to read it as a genericization of "E(a)rnest."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #airplane #illustration #glider
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Cap and Gown yearbook of the University of Chicago, 1917.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #throne #illustration
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October 3, 2024

The Right Word (permalink)
Tag your location!  From The Open Door English Series for the Junior High School Book Two, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #communication #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)





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#dark shadows #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroes of the Puppet Stage by Madge Anderson, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #devil #punch #1920s #puppet #illustration #hand puppet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trailing Our Animal Friends by Nida & Nida, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #india #cobra #1920s #animal fight #illustration #mongoose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #rabbit #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Starting Points in Language Skills B by Moore & Kleitsch, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #monster #1970s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The boy who whacked the witch's toadstools.  Something to find out — what the witch did to the little boy."  From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1925.
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#toadstool #witch #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#book design #vacuum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Human Culture, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #phrenology #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Modern Screen, 1953.
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#vintage ad #mannequin #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Just before I shot it, it saod, "HEY BOO BOO!"  From The Old Line, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #hunter #trophy #yogi bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Dayton's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage men #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Texas Woman's College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1910s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1926.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Asbury College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #father time #vintage yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From CdU Suplemento Internacional, 2002.
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#vintage illustration #aura #men in black
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #cat #living toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Brownie and His Friends by Gates & Karabin, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #mushroom #brownie #illustration
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October 2, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The faces of the audience are straight out of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.  From The Moving Picture World, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #illustration #cursed image #1910s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From She, The Woman-Man by Aleta B. Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1935. At Archive dot org.
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#vintage illustration #astrology #zodiac #esoteric #1930s #illustration #occult diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #greece #greek #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Number Stories Work-Book 1, by Findley, Studebaker & Knight, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if dictionary-makers are always coming to words."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #lexicographer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1920s
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Old News (permalink)
"Mistaken for squirrel, red-haired man in slain."  From the Duluth Herald, 1906.
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#redhead #hunter #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and illustrated by Sidney H. Meteyard, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #diploma
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Before the "horse whisperer" came the "horse fascinator."  From Hypnotism: Its Facts, Theories and Related Phenomena by Carl Sextus (1893).  See also this book, whose implicatios go way, way beyond the subject matter: Secrets of Chicken Whispering.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #hypnotism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Toronto Normal School's 1930 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mysteria, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage diagram #star #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson-Brown College's 1922 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #rabbit #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1902 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull face #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1962.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1960s #dinner jacket
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Someone to watch over me.  From Emory University's 1987 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dharma Combat, no. 10.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#men in black #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Feels like this yearbook is trying to psychoanalyze its reader.  From Beaver College's 1946 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Kodak Magazine, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #farmer #seeds
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"You have to eat three olives before you like olives."  And here's the machine that proves it!  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage headline #illustration #headline #olive #1910s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Broadcasting Health by Andress & Goldberger, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #nutrition #cabbage #1930s #illustration #food #vitamin
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #jonathan caws-elwitt #grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
"Love and marriage have nothing to do with each other."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1957.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#marriage #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to view an alternate cover. From The Manual of Detection by Jebediah Berry.

From The Manual of Detection by Jebediah Berry
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#spying #eye #surveillance #gif
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The Right Word (permalink)
A little-known name for human magentism: clairmativeness.  From Lectures on Clairmativeness by A. J. Davis, 1848.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #human magnetism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #shaving #spoof ad #razor blade
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Horizontal engineering.  From Tufts University's 1947 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #elephant #sleeping
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Old News (permalink)
"He forgot his head."  From Adam Shuffler by Samuel Alfred Beadle, 1901.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wayne State University's 1945 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #october #vintage yearbook #yearbook #modern art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Watson's Magazine, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #bear #california
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Asbury College's 1933 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #prayer #vintage yearbook #yearbook #praying
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #birds #robin #sign #keep off the grass #From St. Nicholas #1885.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas's 1911 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #witch #october #jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An apple jack-o'-lantern.  From What a Girl Can Make and Do by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #faces in things #1900s #apple #jack-o-lantern
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Reading Style: A Life in Sentences, by Jenny Davidson:

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I have long had a yen to write a little book on the history from earliest times to the present day of the stage direction.
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[Bonus: Davidson quotes (someone else quoting) this line from Ronald Firbank, which I don't recall hearing before: "I think nothing of filing fifty pages down to make a brief, crisp paragraph or even a row of dots."]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Great Pyramid Passages and Chambers by John Edgar and Morton Edgar, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #egypt #pyramid #1920s #diagram #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #hunter #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A delightful little knockturne executed on the piano."  From State University of Iowa's 1904 yearbook.

*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #piano #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #musician #illustration #hammer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #question mark #1930s #illustration #homemaking
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